Treatment of Guillain-Barré Syndrome induced by cyclosporine in a lung transplant patient

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 140-143

  Falk, Jeremy A ^a   Cordova, Francis C ^b   Popescu, Anca ^b   Tatarian, Gabriel ^b   Criner, Gerard J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; LORAZEPAM; TACROLIMUS; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GRAFT REJECTION; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HUMAN; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

CYCLOSPORINE; GUILLAIN-BARRE SYNDROME; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMAPHERESIS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 30044435322     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2005.06.012     Document Type: Article

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